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See Every Asteroid and Comet That Came Close to Earth in a Year
See Every Asteroid and Comet That Came Close to Earth in a Year
Sep 21, 2024 5:44 AM

If you're the type of person that worries about objects shooting through space, this video will make you uncomfortable.

Since Dec. 2013, NASA's NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer) survey has been .

Over a year later, NASA compiled that data to create the video above, which shows hundreds of dots swirling around our solar system. In the video, , and comets are yellow squares and asteroids are green dots.

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NASA first launched NEOWISE in 2009, but the spacecraft was put into hibernation two years later after its mission concluded. As explained on the Near Earth Object Program website,to gather more data on asteroids and comets that pose a risk to Earth.

Asteroids and comets aside, NEOWISE is instrumental in discovering minor planets within our galaxy.

Since it was relaunched, NEOWISE has already discovered 40 new near-Earth objects and observed over 200 previously known celestial bodies.

Last November, the European Space Agency on a comet.

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